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The results of the Jakarta EE community survey revealed that cloud-native development is a top requirement in the platform’s evolution, alongside the need for a faster pace of innovation on the Jakarta EE platform. Users’ wish has been granted! The Eclipse Foundation unveiled the new open source governance model and a “cloud-native Java” path for Jakarta EE.

JAX 2018 has officially opened and we’ve got you covered if you can’t make it to Mainz this year. We’re livestreaming the first keynote for JAX 2018, just for you! Mark your calendars for three days of JAX fun and excitement about serverless, Spring, Agile, and DevOps!

GitLab, determined, as always, in getting things done introduces significant additions and some minor improvements in order to make the life of developers easier and more efficient.

Scala 2.13 may be a few months away, but the future is looking bright for 2.14 and beyond. We check in to see the state of Scala and where this popular JVM language is heading. It’s still not set in stone, but keep early 2020 free for Scala 3!

Public updates for Java 8 will remain available for individual, personal use through at least the end of 2020 but business users won’t be that lucky — the ‘public updates’ tap will be turned off in January 2019. This post also contains a poll — we would appreciate if you could take a few seconds and fill it out.

Useful for optimizing memory consumption, a heap dump is a snapshot of the memory of a Java process. In this article, Ram Lakshmanan explores seven different options to capture heap dumps.

Another day another Oracle-related news. JavaOne is gone but fear not — it has been replaced by Oracle Code One, a conference for *all* developers. This means that Java is no longer the center of the now-defunct JavaOne universe anymore.

Kotlin 1.2.40, the newest bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2 brings a lot of goodies, including new inspections and intentions to the Kotlin IntelliJ plugin and improvements for the experimental multiplatform projects feature. Let’s take a look at what’s in this update.

Big news from the video streaming giant Netflix: they’re open sourcing Titus, a container monitoring platform that powers their streaming, recommendation, and content systems.

Developers aren’t who no-code tools are specifically designed for, but we’re seeing more developers advocate for their use within companies. We talked with John Carione of Quick Base about the benefits of no-code tools, shadow IT and more.

Want to manage your databases with Google Cloud Platform, but you’re still a big PostgreSQL fan? Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is now generally available, making database management easier than ever.

DataStax is most well known for building the vast majority of Apache Cassandra. We talked with Andrew Lampitt, Senior Director, Product Marketing at DataStax about the explosion of data, the benefits of a hybrid cloud strategy and the future of Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise.

Self-documenting log statements may be what first caught our eye, but Flogger, a new fluent logging API for Java, has a lot to offer for developers looking to manage their logging better.

Oracle’s GraalVM aims to remove the isolation between programming languages and enable interoperability in a shared runtime. The tech giant sees GraalVM as a language-level virtualization layer which allows leveraging tools and embeddings across all languages.